BIB_ID
104475
Accession number
MA 322.2
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Display Date
1775 Aug. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection that includes the following: Hester Piozzi's autograph manuscript of Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LLD, during the last twenty years of his life (MA 322); an autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson addressed to Henry Thrale but written to Hester Piozzi dated 1773 Aug. 25 (MA 322.1); an autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson to Hester Piozzi dated 1775 Aug. 5 (MA 322.2); an autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Samuel Lysons dated 1789 Aug. 13 (MA 322.3); an autograph letter signed with initials from Hester Piozzi to Samuel Lysons dated "Saturday 10" (MA 322.4); a cancelled autograph copy of Hester Piozzi's will dated 1814 Apr. 19 (MA 322.5); an autograph letter signed with initials from Hester Piozzi to Doctor Thackeray dated "Wensday" [sic] (MA 322.6); an autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Sir James Fellowes dated 1820 June 9 (MA 322.7); an undated autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Elizabeth Farren (MA 322.8); an autograph letter signed from Elizabeth Farren to Hester Piozzi dated 1795 May 19; and engraved portraits of Samuel Johnson (MA 322.10) and Hester Piozzi (MA 322.11-12). The manuscript materials are described in 10 individual records (MA 322 and MA 322.1-9).
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1909.
Summary
Discussing his plans to return to Streatham; explaining why she "will not be so much wiser as [she] expect[s] when [she has] lived twelve years longer"; observing that "far the greater part of human minds never endeavour their own improvement"; commenting on the health of her daugher Sophie.
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